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I have had several occasions where I have bought a Pokemon on the auction house for my pokedex and by the time I go to put an everstone on the Pokemon it evolves from leveling up. It would be cool if it gave you the option to cancel or deny the evolution like you're allowed too in the Pokemon games.

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I totally like this idea. It is very annoying.

Honestly? Yes please. It’s inconvenient in multiple ways to have Pokemon automatically evolve when at the required level:

I adopt Magikarp from fishing, and it’s annoying when they evolve before I can attach an everstone to them.

SCS days are sometimes nervewracking; I don’t want a shiny to hatch and evolve that I don’t want to evolve, so that’s a waste if it does evolve. I hide eggs in storage to empty my party during SCS slots.

As mentioned, the auction house can be bothersome, too.

In general, if you hatch a Pokemon like Caterpie that evolves at a low level, it can be easy to miss it if you just want Caterpie.

Support. This would make somethings way easier. Granted this would make the need for Everstones nearly vanish but who cares.

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I agree with this it's better to have the option for evolving a Pokémon rather than having it done automatically. I don't think everyone can keep up with buying ever stone all the time plus it helps with filling in the pokedex. ( I had a Rattata but since it evolved now it says I never found one.) This would make collecting Pokémon more enjoyable and easier.

uhhh… but if this is implemented, won’t the everstones be useless?

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exctly, IDK what to choose......

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hm… how about a key item, which affects the party, to make the pokemon not being able to evolve. It can be enabled and disabled, and will only work for the party, therefore everstones will still have it’s use

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No support. This would be useful, but then we wouldn't need everstones (except for preventing trade evo) It also would give you a LOT of notifications.

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Support, This definitely helps when you hatch a shiny you don't want to evolve, also to those who say it would make everstones useless,probably what would actually happen is each time it levels up you'll get the notification and have to dencline it time after time until you put a everstone on it

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I'm going to go ahead and say that I support the idea of this suggestion and want to give my own input on what I think could be good for the site.

The idea could most definitely work I feel, given there's a good implementation. Of course, we wouldn't want to have something that makes Everstones useless/obsolete, which is something to keep in mind when considering an idea that could work and be considerable.

My own idea I'd like to propose is this. Add a premium-like Key Item that either:

A.) Costs x Nuggets in the Item Shop and lasts for y days.
B.) Make it a free Premium upgrade that Premium users could use as long as they remain Premium, otherwise have it be made available for Nuggets from the Item Shop for all users (option A).

I feel both of these could work. For option B, I'm only pitching it because we haven't had any sort of free added benefits to Premium in a long time (as far as I recall). Normally, the amount of Premium member numbers are also relatively low. Right now we currently have 1083 Premium users (a big increase since the free week of Premium from Advent). Normally the Premium numbers are about roughly 1/5th of that. Something to think about.

Anyway, what I would like to propose for an item is this:


It would be called the Foreverstone. Its description in rich text would read this:


You would be able to "hold" (activate) or "let go" (deactivate) the stone from say the Party Page. This way its effect would be able to be turned on/off. Whether this could affect only your Party or Account could be up for discussion. Honestly, even if it would just affect your Party it could be good enough. I think where most people have issues with are Pokémon in their party after they hatch out of eggs anyway. Pokémon in Storage Boxes I know for a fact level a lot slower and I can say that being someone who has been interacting a whole lot on site over the years. I wouldn't think that Pokémon in Storage would necessarily need the effect and with that could also still make Everstones be valuable to always have/use, of course.

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I'd rather go a simpler route. Just get rid of Everstones and make it so Pokemon cannot evolve without the user clicking a button when evolution conditions are satisfied. I don't see why we need to keep Everstones around.

Of course, other ideas like a key item work, but I think even that should be very simple. Like, having an item bought with nuggets that lasts for a finite number of days to prevent automatic evolution, is that really worth the nuggets? I don't think so. An item like that bought with PD isn't even worth the PD in my opinion. If you had an item that lasted infinitely, then that's worth it, but at that point you might as well use the idea I mentioned earlier in my post.

full support,I really hate when this happens,and it always happens when I'm asleep or when it's x2 day or even SCE when you don't want a certain pokemon or shiny to evolve and it's always too late for an everstone,I wish we could decline it for a short time being or pause it when we're not able to put a everstone on it in time,this would be really helpful especially if we're busy

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Full support. While it would make everstones useless, I think this is a great idea for those who are trying to complete their dexes. About the notifications, maybe there can be a way to deactivate them at certain times?

Quote from KrazyKarp

Like, having an item bought with nuggets that lasts for a finite number of days to prevent automatic evolution, is that really worth the nuggets? I don't think so.

That's why I also pitched option B which would effectively make it a free feature if you're already paying for Premium and spending Nuggets anyway. You could also say that this item should be a cheaper item compared to other the Premium-like items that benefit the user in some way (flutes and cuffs). This would make sense since this would be more of a convenience item compared to items that give you more of a beneficial boost to hatching eggs or shiny hunting.

Also, I don't think just flat out removing Everstones is really the right solution/idea, and I feel Riako would be opposed to such a thing. It would also make collecting and completing the Dex seamlessly easier and be unfair to people who have put in the time/effort to complete their Dexes already.

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@~Wish~ If their deactivated then it'll evolve? Or the things you want to evolve won't. (unless you get all your notifications after.)

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Title: Everstones won't be useless

You can still use ever stones like if you don't want a Pokémon to evolve at all (example: having a level 100 pichu, or whatever the level cap is on here ) or if you don't want to have them to evolve during trading. Before you complain about people wanting this free, think about when you play the actual games they at least give you a few seconds to stop the evolution process.

@Ephenia if we have to pay for this feature, then we might as well not change anything, because not everyone can afford or have premium, I only have it because it was from the Advent calendar and won't have it once it's gone....) You don't have to pay to evolve in the actual games why should we start now??

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You don't have to pay to evolve in the actual games why should we start now??

Pay to evolve? I think you misunderstood what I've explained.

The item that I'm proposing would enable the option to prevent the automatic evolution through leveling up of your Party Pokémon. This is even if you do not give them an Everstone to hold. You would also be able to turn this feature on and off if you do so happen to posses said item.

The item isn't changing anything for you now if you wouldn't be able to have/afford it. It would merely be a convenience item for people if they are looking for help avoiding the issue of their Pokémon automatically evolving through level up. This is because their eggs hatch and EXP on the hatched Pokemon are gained too quickly or they are AFK or not around to attend to them before they evolve (to give them Everstones). It's premium/convenience I believe people should pay a price for if they want such help. That's if they feel this is a problem to them.

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I think you are missunderstanding TremorzGG's suggestion, what he wants is that pokemon from auction house or gts dont evolve, not an item that act like everstone

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But the problem with that is that’ll remove the use of the ever stones. My suggestion for this is a key item, that only affects the party, not every single Pokémon you have, this way, you won’t be spammed with notifs, everstones still have use, and the difficulty of design completion is maintained

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